Lily Murray is an experienced documentary filmmaker specializing in observational documentaries on sensitive subjects. She has over 15 years of experience producing and directing documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, ITV, and TLC. Some of her credits include films on child poverty in the UK, street prostitution, and survival skills. She has expertise in self-shooting, editing, and securing difficult access. Lily is physically fit and experienced filming in hostile environments.

1. LILY MURRAY: SHOOTING PD
Lily_mint@yahoo.com 0784 309 6546
• BBC, Channel 4, ITV, & TLC (USA) credits. Specialist factual, current affairs
and entertainment
• Expertise in human interest and access driven observational documentary (Degree
and MA in anthropology/ethnographic film making and trained journalist: NCTJ)
• Expertise filming difficult sensitive subject matters in hostile environments
• Experience in Development. BBC3 'Current Affairs' and 'Factual 'Team
• Experience Story Producing - writing 'Creatives' (East 15 Acting School graduate)
• Self Shooter (XF105, XF305, PMW200, C300, 5D) and editor (FCP)
• High energy/ physically fit (Marathon Runner/ Represented England in junior X-
country/Trained in winter mountaineering; snow hole survival skills, Canoe BCU
awarded, Bikram Yoga practitioner, Bear Grylls Survival School filming)
• CRB Enhanced checked
• Full clean driving licence
• BAFTA nominated: ‘POOR KIDS’ (True Vision) & ‘BRITAIN’S HIDDEN
HOUSING CRISIS’ (Panorama)
TV CREDITS AND ROLES:
• PD self-shooting - Potato, ITV Studios: Bear Grylls' Survival School,
Snowdonia (Tx Jan 2016)
• DV Director & Story Producer - self shooting - MBFAGW: My Big Fat
American Gypsy Wedding - USA- Firecracker Films. TLC (Tx Non 2015)
• PD Self-shooting - Maverick TV. Finding and filming contributors for taster
tape for ITV commission in Cumbria. ‘Britain’s Fattest Town’
• PD – self-shooting : Keo Films. 3 Eps‘ SKINT ' Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. CH4
• PD – self-shooting – (Development) – observational documentary on street
prostitution - Exec: Katie Buchanan - Keo Films (on going )
• PD – self-shooting: ‘Ramadan Diaries’ - Watershed TV - CH4
• Self-shooting Producer - Blast Films! - Development filming for CH4 -
• Self-shooting Casting Producer - Firecracker Films - 'Married In Britain',
BBC2•
• Self-shooting Casting Producer - Films of Record - 'Iceland : Life in the
Freezer Cabinet ‘- BBC2
• Self-shooting Casting Producer - Maverick TV: ‘An Ideal Parent' - CH4
• AP & Casting Producer - (self-shooting) Panorama – ‘Britain's Hidden
Housing Crisis’ - 60 minutes - Steve Hewlett, Genie Films. BBC1 . TX:
November 2012. BAFTA NOMINATED 2013

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• P/D - Dandora, Nairobi, Kenya 'The Children of Dandora Dumpsite’ Creative
Solutions: UK registered Charity promo film on child poverty - April 2012
• Producer - BBC - Factual Documentary Department – Development.
Executive: Nick Mirsky - October 2011 – April 2012
• Casting Producer - self-shooting (Development and Production) Firecracker
Films. May - September 2011. Finding & filming teenage Romany gypsies for
‘Princesses' series in Darlington- structured reality. C4. Exec: Jes Wilkins
• Casting Producer - self-shooting - Betty TV – Channel 4.
April-May 2011. ‘Beauty & The Beast; The Ugly Side of Prejudice’. Development;
Finding and filming contributors for series 2. TX: July 2011
• AP - True Vision Productions - C4 – Dispatches: ‘Britain's Street Kids’ -
60mins. April - July 2010. Dir: Nick Read. Exec Producer: Brian Woods. Found
and filmed teenage homeless in London, Brighton and Manchester. TX: October
2010
• AP - True Vision Productions. July 2010–March 2011 : ‘Poor Kids'- 60mins.
Exec Producer: Brian Woods. 6 month observational documentary on child
poverty in the UK. Found and filmed contributors in London, Leicester and
Bradford. TX: June 2011- BBC1. BAFTA NOMINATED 2012
⁃ Poor Kids won the Gold Plaque for Social & Political Documentary, 2012
⁃ Hugo Television Awards at the Chicargo Film Festival
⁃ Poor Kids shortlisted for Televisual Bulldog Award nomination
⁃ Poor Kids nominated for Learning on Screen Awards at the BFI
• AP - BBC - Current Affairs – Development Team. October 2009 – March 2010.
Found Commission: ‘Young, Jobless and Living at Home’ - 60min – BBC3
• Researcher - BBC4. ‘History of Surgery; Blood and Guts’, 2008. Presenter:
Michael Mosley. Executive Producer: Kim Shillinglaw.
EDUCATION:
⁃ 10 x GCSE and 3 x A’Level – St Philomena’s Convent high School
⁃ 1990-1993 Manchester University: B Soc Sci in Social Anthropology. 2:1
⁃ 1995-1996 East 15 Acting School: MA in Performance. Sponsored by Sir
Anthony Hopkins, graduating with theatrical agent: George Heathcote
Management
⁃ 2002-2003 NCTJ: National Council Training of Journalism
⁃ 2003-2004 Manchester University & Granada Centre: MA in Visual
Anthropology (Ethnographic Observational Documentary).
REFERENCES
• Katie Buchanan: Executive Producer: KEO Films: 0207 490 3580
Katie.buchanan@keofilms.com.
• Mags Gavan: Series Director, Red Rebel films : 0207 535 8501
• magsgavan@hotmail.com